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Trump big tech suit lawyer predicts case headed to Supreme Court, says gov’t pressure made firms state actors
Aug 30, 2021
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“Government cannot wave a wand and say ‘you’re public now,'” Shoshana Weissmann of the libertarian R Street Institute told Fox News at the time as well. “[G]overnment pressuring companies or companies taking cues from government entities also does not magically turn them into government actors… This is a full misunderstanding of how the law works.”
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